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Samuel Pepys on the Great Plague (1665)

Illustration of the Great Plague in London (1665) During the summer of 1665, London experienced the last outbreak of the bubonic plague which carried away about 100,000 lives, i.e. one fifth of the entire city population. Extracts from the diary of Samuel Pepys, a naval administrator, provide us with a valuable testimony of the eyewitness […]

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